persistive

1. (obsolete) persistentExamples: "Do you with cheekes abash'd, behold our workes, And thinke them shame, which are (indeed) nought else But the protractiue trials of great Ioue, To finde persistiue constancie in men?"; "It should further be observed, that this order of spasm is very persistive, sometimes continuing even after apparent death[…]"obsolete

2. (grammar) Indicating a situation that was the case at one time (usually past) and continues to a later time (usually time of speaking).Examples: "The present paper looks at so-called persistive markers (denoting something like “still going on”) in the sub-Saharan Bantu languages, one of the major subgroups of the Niger-Congo language phylum."; "Persistive aspect is marked with a post-initial prefix shí-. Its high tone does not surface when combined with a construction that uses melodic tone 4"